Comment 20 for bug 296142

I followed those instructions on my Averatec 3280, and it seems to
work now (I am still booting into text mode and using 'startx' to
start the X server. The only problem I have now is that X starts in a
very high res screen mode that doesn't work properly on this system -
the screen contents are magnified past the edges of the screen. Also
when I selected 1024x768, the refresh rate shows as 0 (but it works
ok, apparently. So I edited xorg.conf to specify the monitor
characteristics more closely - I've attached that.

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:00 AM, j.eason <email address hidden> wrote:
> I also have an averatec 3280 that had this problem when installing
> intrepid. I installed it anyway from the desktop cd in safe graphics
> mode.
>
> After reading <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
> /xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/+bug/299631">bug #299631</a>, I compiled
> openchrome from svn as described <a
> href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenChrome">here</a> and that
> solved the X freeze (at least so far). I can also shut down without the
> screen flashing etc.
>
> --
> Installer fails to recognize display on Averatec 3280
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296142
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